Adrenergic and cholinergic innervation of the chicken pancreas

Folia Morphologica

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 243-246

  Ulas, Mariola ^a   Penkowski, Aleksander ^b   Łakomy, Mirosław ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chicken; Innervation; Pancreas

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENERGIC NERVE; ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHICKEN; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOCRINE CELL; EXOCRINE GLAND; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PANCREAS ISLET; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PERIKARYON;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADRENERGIC FIBERS; ANIMALS; AXONS; BLOOD VESSELS; CHICKENS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; FEMALE; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC DUCTS; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0041324577     PISSN: 00155659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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